Tagged: Denial Of Service Attack & News
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The rise of the internet’s cyber armies of night and day News
13.12.2010 In his look back on the week, Siliconrepublic editor John Kennedy points out how the WikiLeaks saga has led to the calling out of cyber militia who can strike at will at some of...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Servers, Security, Hosting Services, Digital Media, Computers -
Is your kid part of the ‘Operation Payback’ army? News
10.12.2010 Parents shouldn’t be concerned if their credit cards numbers may have been compromised in the recent ‘Operation Payback’ attacks that took down MasterCard and Visa’s websites,... -
Teen arrested for Black Op against Call of Duty: Black Ops News
10.12.2010 A teenager in Manchester has been arrested under the UK Computer Misuse Act after he allegedly managed to hack into the Call of Duty: Black Ops servers and change the games rules. -
Wikileaks data release causes diplomatic chaos News
29.11.2010 Wikileaks has obtained a cache of quarter of a million cables from the US embassy, exposing a plethora of information, including how China’s Politburo directed last year’s hack... -
CAO beats cyber-attackers to receive 30,000 first-round acceptances News
27.08.2010 The CAO has confirmed that by 5pm last night close to 30,000 applicants for university and college places submitted their first-round acceptances, despite intense cyber-attacks... -
Twitter security moves may not be enough News
11.08.2009 In the fallout of the denial of service attacks that brought social networking service Twitter to its knees, a warning has gone out that new security measures may not be enough.Categories: CIO -
Thursday’s internet outage targeted single blogger News
07.08.2009 The series of attacks that led to Twitter downtime and outages for Facebook, Google and LiveJournal globally was down to denial of service (DoS) attacks aimed at disrupting...Categories:Tags: Facebook, Denial of Service Attack, -
Twitter suffers denial of service attack News
06.08.2009 Following over an hour of downtime today, micro-blogging site Twitter has reported on its status blog that it is ‘defending against a denial-of-service attack’.